Exploring Green Information Systems and Technologies as Persuasive Systems: A Systematic Review of Applications in Published Research

Adopting eco-friendly behaviors has gained attention in multiple scientific fields ranging from psychology to business, to information systems and computer science. Combining knowledge of creating software solutions with behavioral science studies can enhance research on sustainability and contribute to fostering green attitudes. Considering current state of Green Information Systems and Technologies (IS/IT), we suggest employing persuasive techniques to create “green” solutions. Bridging studies of Persuasive Technologies and Behavior Change Support Systems with the Green IS/IT, we suggest that Persuasive Systems Design principles are capable of enhancing performance of “green” applications as well as improving eco-oriented behaviors in both individual and organizational user contexts. Having reviewed and analyzed published articles on environmentally-oriented systems, we examined which persuasive design principles are currently used and which ones could be utilized better in contemporary and future applications

How Espoused Culture Influences Misuse Intention: A Micro-Institutional Theory Perspective

Following Willson and Warkentin’s [42] call for understanding the interaction between employees and the organization in the context of computer abuse, this paper investigates the effect of espoused institutional pressure on misuse intention in South Korea. In addition, we hypothesize the effect of culture in the form of self-construal, power distance and Confucian dynamism on users’ perceptions of organizational coercive, normative and mimetic pressures. We collected 232 usable surveys. Since the sample was mostly a convenience sample, the response rate was close to a 100%. Our analysis found that coercive pressure has no effect on misuse intention, while normative pressures has significant deterring effect and mimetic has significant motivating effect on misuse intention. As to culture, self-construal had the strongest effect on institutional pressure and subsequently on misuse intention

Green IT Segment Analysis: An Academic Literature Review

Research on Green Information Technology (IT) is becoming a prevalent research theme in Green Information Systems (IS) research. This article provides a review of 98 papers published on Green IT between 2007−2013 to facilitate future research and to provide a retrospective analysis of existing knowledge and gaps thereof. While some researchers have discussed phenomena such as Green IT, motivation of Green IT and the Green IT adoption lifecycle, others have researched the importance of Green IT implementation within the organisational and individual level. Throughout the literature, scholars are trying to portray a constructive relationship between IT and the environment. Through our analysis, we can provide an assessment of the status of information systems literature on Green IT and, we provide taxonomy of segments of Green IT publications. Future research opportunities are identified based on the review

How Information Systems are Shaped from the Decision-Making Level to Technical Implementation: Case Trucking

Digitalization is advancing in all walks of life. One of the areas undergoing a sector-wide transformation is trucking, as part of the logistics sector. This will have a profound impact from societal and economic level down to the individual trucker. Information Systems research has for long focused on system design and deployment on organizational level, implying that this level has the actual power to decide about the design directions. However, our study shows that the transformation is more complex and involves technical and societal aspects that shape the decisions before a single organization, or a network of companies get involved. We thus argue that there is a need to take a broader view to the change. We interviewed 14 high-profile actors in Finland and at the European Union level, trying to understand the highest level of this transformation, how the forces are shaped into drivers, what technical manifestations are foreseen, and how the voice of the individual worker can be heard at this level of the process

The Influence of Cognitive Trust and Familiarity on Adoption and Continued Use of Smartphones: An Empirical Analysis

In the information-driven and application rich environment of smartphones, power is closer to the user than ever before and it has the potential of helping them become more effective and efficient. Smartphones have become increasingly important for companies to create strategic opportunities and competitive advantage by adding value for its stakeholders and improving efficiency. Technological advances in smartphones have led to increased mobile applications and implications for theory and practice since they create strategic opportunities and competitive advantage by adding value for customers and improving efficiency through the use of mobile technologies. Understanding the factors that influence the continuance in usage of smartphones in globally distributed teams is extremely helpful because knowledge on how to balance requirements and strategic interests effectively is extremely scarce in existing business model literature. To date, there are no published studies that have investigated the influence of cognitive trust and familiarity on smartphone continuance usage. To fill this gap in the literature, we developed our model based on the Visual Perception Theories as its theoretical foundation. Our model indicates that both familiarity with a smartphone and cognitive trust in integrity of a smartphone have a positive and significant effect on smartphone continuance usage. Also, our study shows factors that influence smartphone continuance usage through cognitive trust. These findings support the Visual Perception Theories

Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Affordances and Institutional Logics in IS-enabled Organisational Sustainability Transformations

While many studies have addressed encouraging employees’ pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) in the workplace, the roles of structures and institutions have received little attention and thus re-main unclear. We draw on the concept of affordances as being enacted and embedded in institu-tional logics, which provide a frame of reference for individual and organisational behaviours. Given our emphasis on organisational sustainability transformations, we explain how organisa-tions can encourage their employees to act pro-environmentally in the workplace with the help of green information systems (Green IS). We address technological, organisational, and human fac-tors that strengthen PEB. Thus, we respond to the call to bring together institutional logics and affordance theory. We present preliminary findings of 55 semi structured interviews with inform-ants from 20 companies, along with internal and external documents. This allows us to develop a pro-environmental corporate logic, which guides employees’ PEB in our case companies. These preliminary findings allow us to develop a research agenda on the interplay of this institutional logic and motivational affordances. We conclude with an outlook on how to tackle the emerging research questions

The Influence of Cognitive Trust and Familiarity on Adoption and Continued Use of Smartphones: An Empirical Analysis

In the information-driven and application rich environment of smartphones, power is closer to the user than ever before and it has the potential of helping them become more effective and efficient. Smartphones have become increasingly important for companies to create strategic opportunities and competitive advantage by adding value for its stakeholders and improving efficiency. Technological advances in smartphones have led to increased mobile applications and implications for theory and practice since they create strategic opportunities and competitive advantage by adding value for customers and improving efficiency through the use of mobile technologies. Understanding the factors that influence the continuance in usage of smartphones in globally distributed teams is extremely helpful because knowledge on how to balance requirements and strategic interests effectively is extremely scarce in existing business model literature. To date, there are no published studies that have investigated the influence of cognitive trust and familiarity on smartphone continuance usage. To fill this gap in the literature, we developed our model based on the Visual Perception Theories as its theoretical foundation. Our model indicates that both familiarity with a smartphone and cognitive trust in integrity of a smartphone have a positive and significant effect on smartphone continuance usage. Also, our study shows factors that influence smartphone continuance usage through cognitive trust. These findings support the Visual Perception Theories

Information Systems Solutions for Environmental Sustainability: How Can We Do More?

We contend that too few information systems (IS) academics engage in impactful research that offers solutions to global warming despite the fact that climate change is one of the most critical challenges facing this generation. Climate change is a major threat to global sustainability in the 21st century. Unfortunately, from submissions of our call for papers presenting IS solutions for environmental sustainability, we found only one paper worthy of publication. Given that IS have been the major force for productivity increases in the last half-century, we suggest that IS scholars should immerse themselves in creating solutions for environmental problems. Moreover, information is a perquisite for assessing the state of the environment and making appropriate decisions to ameliorate identified problems. Indeed, the IS scholarly community needs to help create a sustainable society. While there is an emerging body of IS scholarship under the banner of green IS, we strongly believe that we need to step up these efforts. Our experience indicates that the emergence of green IS as an academic discipline is still by far too slow relative to the needs of society. Too few people are working on green IS given its importance, and fewer still are publishing papers about IS solutions that could contribute to dealing with climate change. In this editorial, we speculate on some reasons for why and explore how the IS discipline can grasp the opportunity to contribute to one of the most important societal challenges of our time. We identify the major barriers that we assert curtail the involvement of IS scholars in green IS research; namely, incentives misalignment, the low status of practice science, data analysis poverty, identification of research scope, and research methods. We discuss each barrier and propose solutions for them

A Review of Subjective Values and Their Implications for Green IS Research

Green Information Systems (IS) are defined in terms of certain sustainability-related characteristics. Sustainability itself is a concept based on subjective values and value judgments, which are political, value-laden, and context-dependent. However, Green IS literature does not provide a sufficient understanding of such subjective values nor their treatment. Also, value-judgments for Green IS have hardly been considered. We adapt material value-ethics to expose the fundamentals of subjective values. Reviewing and synthesizing work in which subjective values and value judgments have been explicitly considered in sustainability decision-making, we improve our understanding of their use and formalization. Finally, we discuss our findings through the lens of material-value ethics, and offer reflective arguments towards clarifying the role of values in Green IS. The paper contributes to a deeper understanding of subjective values and subjective value judgments for sustainability, along with their critical and significant implications for Green IS research